Welcome to the English version of the Justiz
und NS-Verbrechen/ Nazi Crimes on Trial website.

The information you'll find here consists of an overview of
the trials involving Nazi (war) crimes of a homicidal nature, conducted since
1945 before West and East German courts. The judgments which resulted from
these trials are published in the series 'Justiz und NS-Verbrechen' and
'DDR-Justiz und NS-Verbrechen'.

With the
publication of volume 49 of the series ‘Justiz und
NS-Verbrechen’ in 2012, the documentation project, begun in the 1960s under supervision of Prof.
Dr. C.F. Rüter at the Institute of Criminal Law of the University
of Amsterdam, has been completed as far as its printed edition is
concerned. Judgments rendered after 1
January 2012 will be published in volume 50, but only on the internet
(www.junsv.nl). The book
series now consists of 63 volumes with German judgments rendered
since 1945
by West- and East German courts in cases involving nazi homicide
crimes. With the
completion of the project, a vast and unique collection of
sources, consisting of some 50.000 pages, documents in great
detail the judicial reaction of the two post-war German states to
the most serious crimes of the Nazi state.

On the following pages you will find an index on
these post-war German trials. Please note that the
cases listed here only concern criminal offenses involving
fatalities. Trials about non-fatal crimes (such as 'mere' mishandlings or
'economic' offenses) are not included. Listed here are trials
which, generally speaking, relate to (mass) murder.

To find the case(s)
you're interested in you can use the various indexes listed on the next page.
In case you can't find what you're looking for you might consider contacting us:
junsv@expostfacto.nl

Note:In order to avoid misunderstandings, please note that the information given
under the heading 'subject of the proceeding' in the case
descriptions on the following pages only
lists the criminal offense(s) of which the defendants had been accused. Whether or
not, and particularly also, to what extent these accusations were considered proven
by the courts can be concluded only from a study of the trial judgments themselves.

The case descriptions do not take up any position with regard to either indictment or
judgment. They are merely intended to offer an overview of the subject matter of the
proceedings and of their outcome.